The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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